FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Wind ringing of the ocean in presence of mesoscale eddies BT AF KLEIN, Patrice LAPEYRE, Guillaume LARGE, WG AS 1:;2:;3:; FF 1:;2:;3:; C1 IFREMER, Lab Phys Oceans, Plouzane, France. NCAR, Climate & Global Dynam Div, Boulder, CO USA. C2 IFREMER, FRANCE NCAR NATL CTR ATMOSPHER RES, USA SI BREST SE PDG-DRO-DOPS-LPO IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018 copubli-int-hors-europe IF 2.378 TC 35 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10838/9262.pdf LA English DT Article AB Recent findings have highlighted the impact of high frequency (HF) winds on the inertial motions and the consequences on the large-scale oceanic circulation [Wunsch and Ferrari, 2004]. Within this context the present study focuses on the role of intermediate scales related to oceanic mesoscale eddies. Results show that a turbulent eddy field does not affect the impact of HF winds on the inertial motions. However the eddies efficiently and permanently concentrate the wind-forced inertial motions in small-scale anticyclonic structures. This leads to a spatially heterogeneous vertical mixing strongly related to the eddy field properties. PY 2004 PD AUG SO Geophysical Research Letters SN 0094-8276 PU Amer Geophysical Union VL 31 IS 15 UT 000223335600005 BP 1 EP 4 DI 10.1029/2004GL020274 ID 10838 ER EF